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- Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
- There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they…
- If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
- Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their…
- Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health,…
- It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
- There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their…
- Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.
- A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he…
- We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of…
- There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;…
- There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
- Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an…
- During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that…
- Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the…
- Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet…
- No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
- What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud…
- When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she…
- Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
- To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing.
- All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
- A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his…
- There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
- A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.
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